One ringie-dingie…two ringie-dingies… In comes a robocall from some outfit claiming to be Amazon, saying I’d made a $400 charge there and they were calling to confirm that.
This is complete BS.
DO NOT ENGAGE with these crooks. Check your Amazon account for charges, and then contact Amazon’s customer service. They will check further to be sure nothing is amiss.
If you’re senior-citizen age or you have older relatives, you should be aware and alert older folks to this scam. Crooks get age-related lists of names and phone numbers from outfits like AARP and target older people with this sort of hustle, because elders tend to be more trusting or more easily confused than younger people. Hang up on them!
standard line as soon as you realize it’s a scam/telemarketer: County morgue, will that be pick or delivery?
LOL! Perfect! Once I had a boyfriend who played a little joke on my college roommate, who was not the brightest bulb in the dormitory’s lighting fixtures. He called the dorm and left a message for her (this was long before cell phones, nor did we have phones in our rooms), saying she should call Myra Maynes at 555-1234. Her name was Myra, BTW. So she stuffs a quarter into the dorm’s pay phone, calls the number, and when some guy picks up, she says she wants to speak to Myra Maynes. She went around and around with this poor fellow before she FINALLY grasped that she’d called a mortuary! 😀
Okay, okay…not funny. But all these years later, I still can’t stop laughing…
correction: pick up or delivery